Blog 3765 – 03.03.2026

Making Your Vote Count

The stakes have seldom if ever been as high as they are now. In a few minutes the polls will open in Houston, Texas where I reside and I plan to walk to Black Middle School which is a little over four blocks from our house and cast my vote in arguable the most important primary election in over fifty years.

When I first moved to Texas fifty-three years ago it was a state that had voted Democrat for a long time. The 1974 election was the first election that I actually participated in and I remember that most Democrats ran unopposed. I was a Republican back then and so few Republicans voted in my precinct that a couple of grandmas lady poll workers asked me if I would like to run for office. Slim pickings indeed. 

After eight years of the Reagan administration I was done voting Republican. By then Texas was a red state and Ann Richards was our last Democrat governor. I remember as a young man hoping to turn Texas into a Republican state. Be careful what you wish for. 

I just got back from voting. I voted for over a hundred Democrats in the primary and several proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution. I hope the best candidates and amendments win and that we turn Texas blue in November.

Vote – it is how democracies stay in business.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David James White